John Harington

John Harington
case hide legal
From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.
call dare doth none treason
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason
call dare doth none reason treason
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason
beautiful strong wine
Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.
book criticism care
The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
lying fall men
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.
fishing water troubled-waters
Best fishing in troubled waters.
men giving too-much
Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.
cooking guests praise
When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
honesty doctors way
From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]
history politics reason-why
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.